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0 pointsapsurd7mo ago0 comments

automated commit message will tell you the "what" not the "why".

In any circle of "what makes a good commit message and why even do it" discussions, invariably the recommendation is to explain the "why" and leave out the self-evident "what".

If your stance is that commit and commit messages can be automated away then we might as well not even have them.

I don't share this view, but yeah in this world we don't need AI to do things that shouldn't be done in the first place.

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fragmede7mo ago

> we might as well not even have them.

You can't see any value in being able to see the "what" in a short bit of English at a glance vs having to analyze a 300+ line diff to figure out what it's doing?

jes51997mo ago

increasingly, the automated systems have access to the original ticket or bug report, and maybe even the conversation while implementation is happening. They can record the “why”

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